Wrapping Paper

and

Color Theory

Goals for this Project:

Design a wrapping paper for a food based holiday (for example: Banana Day).
Create a pattern [using Illustrator pattern tool] from a variety of images and text.
Develop alternative color schemes for the pattern.
Understand more about color theory

Activities to do and hand in:

• Color Treasure Hunt - in your group, try and find answers to all of the questions using the tabs at the top of the website Colormatters. Turn in the response sheet with all of the team members' names.

• Tints, Tones, and Shades using Blend Tool and Color Worksheet (Revised). Print both (fit to page) and turn into the basket.

• COLOR SCHEMES and MOODS - Screen shots: Shift + Command + 4, then click and drag over area, picture is saved to the Desktop. Print double sided to Sharp 214 and turn in to your Google Classroom.

Criteria Favorite Food Holiday Wrapping Paper PROJECT

1. SELECT A FOOD ... any food. It can be doughnuts, broccoli, peanut butter and jelly sandwich...whatever you like. Research pictures of the food and save as inspiration in a new Wrapping Paper Folder in your Documents, think about angles and different views of the food.

2. SKETCH FOUR PATTERN IDEAS in your sketchbook, one that is a stripe, one that is a checkerboard, and two others. EACH IDEA NEEDS TO INCLUDE:

HALF PAGE for each pattern
each type of PATTERN LABELED
TWO VIEWS of the food
at least one GEOMETRIC SHAPE
Type: The NAME OF THE HOLIDAY

3. Make a new Illustrator file with 5 x 6" square artboards. On one artboard, develop TWO Illustrator drawings of the food. [One drawing should show the food whole. The second drawing should show the same food either sliced, peeled, or with a bite taken out of it.] The drawings need to be "clean", easily editable for color.

4. On a single artboard, create ONE REPEAT/MOTIF of your favorite (from your sketches) pattern in Illustrator. Use a filled rectangle/square 2" x 2" under your motif.

Use a picture as template
Make fillable shapes
Copy, paste, alter objects for variation
Layer objects
Group objects
Make color swatches
Have a rectangle filled with color behind your objects

5. Make your one repeat (motif) into a PATTERN with the PATTERN TOOL:

Select all of the objects of the pattern, Object > Pattern > Make
refine the pattern in the tool and say 'Done' to save this original pattern in your Swatches
In the Color Guide, select a 'key color' that will define your color schemes. Besides Neutral (Black/White/ Grayscale), you may use Monochromatic, Analogous, Triad, Complementary or Split Complementary. Select the scheme you want and then SAVE TO SWATCHES at the bottom of the Color Guide Window. (Other Resources are the Adobe Color Wheel and the Color Calculator, above.)
double click on your pattern in the Swatches Window, make color changes using color schemes saved from the Color Guide, SAVE A COPY and name it the name of the color scheme.

NOTE: your foods do NOT have to be realistic colors, but the colors do need to work harmoniously as a color scheme.

7. Using the Artboard tool, add four more 6" x 6" artboards. Cover each artboard with a rectangle. Fill each rectangle with a different color scheme of your pattern from the Swatches you have created.

8. Create a poster using the Color Poster template in the SHARED DRIVE [Graphics One > Color Theory >Color Poster Template]